This year, we were thrilled to receive an amazing 726 micro fiction entries to the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition. This is 300 more than we received last year!
Our judges, Rachael Dunlop, K M Elkes, Sharon Telfer and Alison Woodhouse had the difficult job of whittling down the 726 stories to a shortlist of 26. This was no easy task and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank the judges for their hard work and for the speed and conscientiousness with which they carried out the judging.
It isn’t easy to tell a story in a 100 words, yet we were blown away by the variety of themes, subjects and styles we saw in the submissions. Thank you to everyone who sent in their work; we appreciated the chance to read your flash.
We are excited to announce that as a celebration of our 10th anniversary, we will be awarding cash prizes to seven Highly Commended Micro Fictions in addition to those placed first, second and third.
Judging is still going on, so if you are lucky enough to be on the shortlist, feel free to celebrate on social media, but please don't mention the name of your story so that judging can remain anonymous.
Now, without further delay, our 26 shortlisted stories are:
| #NoFilter |
| A Cyclist |
| A Plague of Farmers |
| Adverb |
| Adverse Camber |
| Amalgamation |
| Another Version |
| Association |
| Brautigan Banquet |
| Erosion |
| Heartbeat |
| Last Supper |
| Long twilight |
| Motherhood |
| Necessary |
| Ovens |
| Paper Bird |
| Sirens |
| Spider Plant |
| Still Life |
| Summer Breeze |
| Tea Time |
| The Burning Boy |
| The Doll Hospital |
| The inescapable irony of protective packaging |
| The Key |